MV Hiawatha
{{Short description|Canadian passenger ferry}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{other uses|Hiawatha}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Kwasind and Hiawatha -a.jpg |Ship image size = 300px |Ship caption=Hiawatha (on right) about to pass her slightly younger berth-mate Kwasind (on left) in 2012 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship name=Hiawatha |Ship owner=Royal Canadian Yacht Club |Ship operator= |Ship registry={{flagicon|Canada}} Toronto, Ontario |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Bertram Engine Works, Toronto |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship identification= |Ship fate= |Ship status= {{Ship in active service}} |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type=Ferry |Ship displacement= |Ship length={{convert|56|ft|m}} |Ship beam={{convert|13.3|ft|m}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship depth={{convert|6.3|ft|m}} |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship ramps= |Ship ice class= |Ship sail plan= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion=*Steam engine (prior to 1944) |Ship speed= |Ship crew= |Ship notes= }} |
MV Hiawatha is a passenger ferry built in 1895 for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The boat is {{convert|56|ft|m}} long, {{convert|13.3|ft|m}} wide, has a depth of {{convert|6.3|ft|m}}, and measures 46 gross tons. Her capacity is 100 passengers.
Hiawatha was built by the Bertram Engine Works near Queen's Wharf in Toronto harbour and named for Hiawatha, a First Nations leader and co-founder of the Iroquois confederacy. It is claimed to be the oldest passenger vessel still in active service on the North American Great Lakes. Hiawatha has served as a ferry for the yacht club since 1895. The boat was converted from a steam engine to a gasoline engine in 1944. The ship was refurbished in 1983.{{cite web|url=http://torontoplaques.com/Pages/MV_Hiawatha.html|title=M.V. Hiawatha Historical Plaque|website=torontoplaques.com}}
On July 26, 2000, both Hiawatha and the yacht club's slightly newer ferry, Kwasind, were sunk by vandals.
{{cite news | url = http://www.boatnerd.com/news/archive/7-00.htm | title = Ferry Sinks | website= boatnerd | date = July 29, 2000 | access-date = December 21, 2011 | quote = The Hiawatha's sister vessel the Kwasind was also left semi-submerged and adrift, but was salvaged and returned to its dock. Police investigation continues but the police suspect that vandals opened the sea valves, allowing the vessel to fill with water. | archive-date = July 29, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120729181606/http://www.boatnerd.com/news/archive/7-00.htm | url-status = live }} Kwasind was refloated and was back in working order the day of the sinking, while Hiawatha required further repair.{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/426933881.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+22%2C+2000&author=Greg+Younger-Lewis&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Cash+reward+offered+to+solve+boat+sinkings&pqatl=google |title=Cash reward offered to solve boat sinkings |work=Toronto Star |date=August 22, 2000 |access-date=December 21, 2011 |page=B 05 |first=Greg |last=Younger-Lewis |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421030539/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/doc/438160933.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug%2022,%202000&author=Greg%20Younger-Lewis&pub=Toronto%20Star&edition=&startpage=&desc=Cash%20reward%20offered%20to%20solve%20boat%20sinkings |archive-date=21 April 2018 |url-status=dead}}
References
{{cite news | url= http://www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/documents/scanner/02/09/default.asp?ID=c004 | title = Ship of the Month, No. 9 Hiawatha |website=www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca |publisher= Toronto Marine Historical Society | access-date = December 21, 2011 | quote = Bearing this in mind, we find it surprising that very few of our Toronto members realize that they have, right under their noses, what appears to be the oldest operating passenger vessel on the Great Lakes. | archive-date = November 22, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131122035942/http://www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/documents/scanner/02/09/default.asp?ID=c004 | url-status = live }}
{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/426893591.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+27%2C+2000&author=Louise+Surette&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=What+lies+beneath+is+ferry+low+blow&pqatl=google |title=What lies beneath is ferry low blow |work=Toronto Star |date=July 27, 2000 |access-date=December 21, 2011 |quote=The Hiawatha, built in 1895 and considered one of the world's oldest vessels still in daily service, was boarded and sunk by vandals at the yacht club's dock on Queens Quay, police said. The boat took club members and guests between the city and Toronto Island. |page=B 07 |first=Louis |last=Surette |archive-date=April 21, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421030604/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/doc/438147530.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul%2027,%202000&author=Louise%20Surette&pub=Toronto%20Star&edition=&startpage=&desc=What%20lies%20beneath%20is%20ferry%20low%20blow}}
{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Kuitenbrouwer |url = http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=6d129bb7-fbe4-4052-9a65-0e8f512cb111&sponsor= |title= Doing water-tight deals |work= National Post |via=canada.com |date = August 6, 2011 |access-date = December 21, 2011 |quote = The Royal Canadian Yacht Club, founded 1852, moved its clubhouse to Toronto Island in 1881; members and guests access the island with a pair of century-old ferry boats, the Hiawatha and Kwasind (names in a Longfellow poem). |archive-date = November 22, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131122035801/http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=6d129bb7-fbe4-4052-9a65-0e8f512cb111&sponsor= |url-status = dead }}
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External links
- [http://torontohistory.org/Pages_MNO/MV_Hiawatha.html Hiawatha{{'}}s historical plaque]
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